tomo.medhost (8/6/2012)

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It really depends on the people involved, their relationship with each other and their understanding of each others personality. It's not what you say it's how you say it...

TravisDBA (8/6/2012)

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True, but your delivery of this message can determine whether the person is going to take your advice from then on or just ignore everything you say in the...

john.moreno (8/6/2012)

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For instance, I recently said at my workplace that a database backup created on one version of SQL Server could not be restored onto a different version of SQL...

GSquared (8/6/2012)Oh, and a very common mistake on this is to set a database from a later version, into a prior compatibility mode, then back it up and try to...

marcia.j.wilson (8/6/2012)I suspect that what Hakim meant by brutally honest may not be how most of us (including me) tend to interpret it. Too often, I've seen "I was...

Roland Alexander STL (8/6/2012)

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One of the hardest things to learn is to separate your ideas from yourself, and to understand that criticizing your ideas is not the same as criticizing...

Yes, we all write code to the best of our ability. But the best of our ability does not always mean the best. If...

Very good point, and well taken.

Robert.Sterbal (8/6/2012)

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I would encourage you to ask the manager to gentle find out if the code review process is a reasonable one for the developer who was struggling. And don't...

About 150...

adlan (8/6/2012)

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I think 'frank and fearless' is likely to be way more constructive than 'brutal'. If you have a group of people in a room, all pointing out shortcomings...

Sergio Pines (8/6/2012)

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Personally, I find two things show professional dedication: experience/knowledge and the ability to laugh at oneself;

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Hence, I'd say that "the attitude" holds at both ends of the...

Core6430 (8/6/2012)

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I agree. Honesty is good. The article makes it sound like code reviews are supposed to be...

I first heard of the stack ranking system in MBA school, on a case study. I believe it was Jack Welch, famous CEO of GE, that pioneered the system in...

david.wright-948385 (7/11/2012)

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But there is another side to this coin: when someone else is wrong, we need to treat that in a helpful light too. It's so much easier to accept...